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  • Everlasting life: the ‘immortal’ jellyfish

    Trocchio, a professor at the University of Lecce, who took care of the press room at the time, did not like the technical jargon I had used – and rightly so. He used a word that we would never have used: immortality. That triggered the saga of the...

  • How to....Talk science on TV or Radio

    Find out how to get your research discussed on air with Science in Action presenter Professor Adam Hart, and read the Science Media Centre's top tips for commenting on breaking science news The Biologist 64(3) p30-31 The modern-day pressures – and...

  • New Science Minister sets out priorities

    The newly appointed Minister of State for Universities and Science, Jo Johnson MP has said that developing collaboration between academia and business will be among his main priorities during the next parliament. The newly appointed Minister of State...

  • My Lab Unlocked: The Hoskisson Lab

    Professor Paul Hoskisson FRSB and his team study how bacteria evolve to produce useful compounds, such as antimicrobials, in response to their environment. March 2021 The majority of my research is focused on how and why the bacteria Streptomyces...

  • Deep Homology? Uncanny Similarities of Humans and Flies Uncovered by Evo-Devo

    Lewis I Held Jr Cambridge University Press, £59.99 (paperback £26.99) It's over 40 years since I worked in genetics research, so I read this as a lay person not as a specialist and it took a while to get to grips with the jargon. To be fair, the target...

  • Seeing the Big Picture: Sir Mark Walport

    Tom Ireland speaks to the Government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Mark Walport, about influencing policy The Biologist Vol 61(5) p16-19 Professor Sir Mark Walport is the Government's chief scientific adviser and head of the Government Office for...

  • The Optics of Life – A Biologist’s Guide to Light in Nature

    Sönke Johnsen Princeton University Press, £30.95 Sönke Johnsen Princeton University Press, £30.95 It is rare for a book to begin with the author admitting to not being sure why he wrote it. But that is how Sönke Johnsen, associate professor of biology...


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